Catalyzing

Catalyzing is the Catalyst blog, bringing together and amplifying diverse voices that share Catalyst’s mission to expand opportunities for women and business. Catalyzing reflects the wide range of opinions, ideas, and experiences of Catalyst employees, incorporating perspectives from our offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond. It also features non-Catalyst industry leaders, experts, and academics committed to changing workplaces and lives. Get the RSS feed.

Catalyzing

Even after adding the “really big” part, the above is still a bit of an understatement. I'm a rabid sports fanatic, an ESPN junkie, a fantasy-football tycoon. I am one of countless high school graduates who have been told by a guidance counselor, “If you spent half...

August 20, 2014 by Eric Marmon

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I recently had the privilege of attending the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado as a Scholar sponsored by PepsiCo. As Vice President of Marketing at Catalyst, I strive to promote an organizational vision that includes lofty goals like “changing lives.” To do this, innovative thinking and new...

August 14, 2014 by Michael J. Chamberlain

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Car shopping: you either love it or hate it. I happen to love it—I absolutely love the game of negotiation and even took classes on negotiating in grad school. My husband, on the other hand, cannot stand car shopping. Negotiation is ultra-painful for him; he won’t even try to haggle. Whenever...

August 12, 2014 by Lauren Pasquarella Daley, PhD

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An Indian lady is most powerful when she becomes a mother-in-law (MIL), a coveted position in India. She controls not only what happens in the kitchen but also what her daughter-in-law can and cannot do! The statement one hears most frequently from an MIL is “hamre khandan ki bhau...

August 7, 2014 by Shachi Irde

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Most young men and women today want—or at least claim to want—egalitarian relationships. When asked, most college students will say that when they get married, everything, from child-rearing to household management, will be shared 50-50.

Yet when confronted with the realities of work and...

August 5, 2014 by Jeanine Prime, PhD

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As an editor in chief who’d recently transitioned to digital consulting, I was flattered to be asked to speak on a panel at a university journalism conference. The presenters were a mix of print and digital editors, both men and women. But the real stars were two newly minted entrepreneurs. Both...

Catalyzing

Successful women’s resistance to talking about mistakes first struck me a couple of years ago, as I watched Hillary Clinton introduce a panel of top female leaders in government. The panelists sat on a brightly lit stage in a Washington, DC conference room packed with students from women’s...